Raytheon Employer Reviews

worked on just general accounting items everyday and also on research items to reconcile overstated accounts.

mgt needs to learn that part of their job is to stand up for the employees instead of cowarding to high ups. once was a great company now they have weak managers --they promote on politics not merit. very weak leadership--

Used to be the best place to work with great benefits.. With new management, it became unbearable place to work

Awesome company with lots of room for advancement, safe career due to company leadership expansion into other fields, very forward thinking, awesome work/life balance, awesome benefits, concern for employees both career and personal.

Mandatory 6 day work weeks, no pay increases, year after year.

I enjoyed the tasks and my co-workers there, and the work was both challenging and interesting.

My main duties could be described as Forensic Engineering where I restored mature equipment to seviceability

One of the more challinging parts of the job was locating a source or replacements for obsolete components

Great place to work. Good work life balance with chalenging financial analysis work.

good salary
great benifits
very helpful management
tested products per company / government requirements

typical day at work, was helping service members
i learned about alot of different aspects of the supply program at the DOL
co workers were great
hardest part of my job was being laid off
most enjoyable part of my jobwas knowing that those service members i helped were defending my and my family

Awesome company to work for, I'd go back in a heartbeat! Salary for all is within market for the position, benefits are great but expensive, culture is comfortable, management is knowledgeable. Work/life balance is almost non-existant. Too few people for the work required and very long hours are often necessary to accomplish. High stress environment – more...  but rewarding if you can handle it. Job security is sketchy right now due, in part, to the lack of defense spending. – less

Typical work day consist of meetings, reviewing documents and codes. It's a lot of fun if making big ticket software is your thing. Great benefits and lots of opportunity to move around the company.

For the most part most days were different with a large variety of tasks. I never knew from day to day what to expect as far as work assignments which kept the job interesting. My managers and co-workers were enjoyable to work with and were eager to help each other out.

great job, there isnt many that can come up to the level of this one. so much knowledge in the people that you worked with, if you forgot something they would help everyone was a team player.

Placing buys from MRP system. Management is very helpful. Hardest part of the job would be the repetition of steps for one order. Most enjoyable part would be that you worked on Aerospace projects.

Most people start work at 7:00 and work 10 to 14 hour days. There is a 9/80 schedule but, Friday work is still expected. Raytheon has a lot of finance systems and I learned a lot of them. Weekly Financial Planning, Long Range Planning, Cash Flow, Invoicing and Pricing are some. Management was challenging, there was not a lot of input accepted and direction – more...  was more of the style. Co-worker and program management were great and all worked as a team. The hardest part of the job was trying to satisfy a strict finance management interpretation of the policies and working the the programs to help the succeed with their programs. The co-worker and program management people were great and a pleasure to work with. – less

machine shop,set-ups,lathes,mills,cutting steel,aluminum,stainless.Precision cutting at goverment .D.O.D.specs.Most enjoyable part of job was getting projects done that passed quality control,had over 95% rating

Co-operative environment and open to suggestions was a learning experience.

The typical week involves making new schedules, updating existing schedules, and labor review. The workers at both Raytheon and the NSF were all outstanding.

productive some days do my own work plus did some training,meetings.soldering, bonding, mechanical, circuit broad solder,followed planning instructions, used leak test machine on some parts,used a hot plate to solder some parts together, build harrness, and felx cables.some management were ok,co-workers easy to get along with.the hardest part was getting – more...  the management to listen to you.most enjoyable was when you can have a good laugh – less

This part of Raytheon used to be Hughes. Raytheon bought them and now it has the usual corporate atmosphere (do whatever it takes to get a dollar; you can always do some ethics training to repent later). The amount of bias that is shown publicly is amazing. From promotions to job growth, the old adage about who you know is alive and well.
The older – more...  employees from Hughes are very technical. The newer crop is more concerned with the new Lexus payments and golf schedules, rather than hardening their code or hardware. Raytheon SAS is where engineers go to die. The truth hurts, but the El Segundo site needs a major overhaul.
A typical day at work (provided you don't have to go beg programs for work) will involve trying to figure out why someone wrote code a certain way, as documentation is evil. Once you figure it out and make any changes, you'll probably find that those changes were already made by a few people already, years ago.
Management...go to lunch with them and you're assured of getting easy promotions or awards (usually both). Stay in during lunch to get something correct and kiss any job growth goodbye.
Coworkers are a mixed bag. People fall into a few categories. There are those that are close to retiring (usually technical types), those that see engineering as a way to nice things, and those that want to do good work, but aren't willing to inflate their skill levels to get onto the newer programs.
There aren't any enjoyable parts of any jobs here, unless you're a manager, then you pretty much can do as you will, until something goes wrong. When that happens, you don't have to worry about responsibilities and all that stuff. The company will just do a "reorganization" of the staff and move you to another area. The lowest person left on that failed program can take the hit.
This place is horrid (over 7 years here, so far) and the only reason it's still there is because people are too used to the fat salaries. – less